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| | Description | How Horse Sense Helps Us Find Balance, Strength and Wisdom In Dancing with Your Dark Horse, Chris Irwin, one of the most successful horse trainers in North America, offers a new approach to personal empowerment inspired by the fascinating spiritual connection he has discovered between horses and humans. Based on his more than twenty years of working with horses as well as his personal experience, Irwin explains how the characteristics necessary to building good relationships with horses can in turn be used to discover and heal our deepest psychological issues and help us reach our greatest potential. A unique combination of practical advice on developing a true bond with horses and powerful insight on how we can tame "the dark horse that lives within our shadow nature," Dancing with Your Dark Horse shows us how to live happier, healthier, more balanced lives. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Chris Irwin | | Paperback: | 240 pages | | Publisher: | Da Capo Press | | Publication Date: | May 10, 2005 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1569243875 | | Package Length: | 8.0 inches | | Package Width: | 5.5 inches | | Package Height: | 0.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 11 reviews |
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 One of the few horse books that is not for me Mar 24, 2010
I'm an avid and life long horse-lover and owner and I love to learn more. This is my first negative review of a book in this area. Chris Irwin seems to me to be the kind of false prophet to avoid. He turned me off early in the book, but I continued reading out of some weird compulsion to see just how far he'd go to berate other author/trainers whose advice I've come to use and respect and replace it with his own sense of "I've got it right and they will ruin you and your horse". Additionally, he offered no practical difference in what he was saying. Simply, his belief that natural horsemanship is false and that he has a better way. Ok, what is your better way? Are you ever going to explain the details? I found one or two of his insights interesting and unique. So that's something I guess.
Also, the book is full of literary fillers to make a book more than 200 pages. In one 3 page rant, he used a metaphor from zen-masters, Wayne Gretzky, and JFK. It was laughable. Do you have a coherent point to make here? The rambling just goes on page after page.
The story where he absolutely lost me for good was when he told the story of his 2nd wife's horse. To be clear that's his 2nd wife of 4 wives. This horse aggressively went for his "carrot" when he was relieving himself. The horse was expecting his "carrot" to be a treat. Aside from the need to tell a story about his jeopardized penis, more importantly he showed that he took no accountability for the boundary issues of a horse living in his own barn??!! Surely, it's his 2nd wife's ignorance that caused this horses boundary issues... this horse that he was clearly working with and riding. Happy trails. I'm moving on to someone who has something helpful to say to me and who has some humility as a horseman.
Better use of my reading time:
Dr Robert Miller
Bill and Tom Dorrance
Leslie Desmond
Linda Tellington-Jones
Sally Swift
Monty Roberts
Linda Kohanov
 Dancing with your Dark Horse Feb 24, 2010
I personally have not started this book, but a friend read it first...she couldn't put it down. Chris Irwin books are great.
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 Dancing with your Dark Horse Mar 18, 2009
I was disappointed when I received this book to find that it had highlights inside that I was not aware of. Also there were the remnants of an old sticker on the front cover. I understand that it was used, but would not have bought it from this person if I knew about the highlights.
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Misnomer Nov 17, 2008
I thought that whilst this book was quite fascinating it didn't really address the issues that the book began with namely an incident where a good horse trainer loses his cool with a recalcitrant horse and in front of an audience. He gets angry and actually uses his crop on the horse.
For me it left a lot of questions which start to get discussed in the final chapters of the book but almost as an afterthought.
If the book had been about how we deal with our darker feelings then it would have more satisfying and more reflect the title. A good read nontheless.
Fantastic book Jul 13, 2008
This is a really wonderful book. It is full of amazing insights into the interior world of horses and humans. It is a truly incredible experience to read this book. You will learn so much you will feel as if you have had your eyes and ears closed your whole life. Do yourself a favor and read it twice. Thank you Chris Irwin for changing my life.
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